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Discrepancy[edit]

I noticed that this page lists the size of the fire 491k acres using this source: [1]. However, the List of California wildfires page lists the fire at 747k acres using this source: [2]. I don't know which is more accurate so I'm not making any changes. Just noting it here for others.»NMajdan·talk 19:06, 11 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I think there may be some confusion in the incident management, or at least among the updaters for the website. However, since the fires have techically merged and been combined into one larger complex, we should treat the fire as a single entity. As of this morning, it appears that InciWeb designates the Doe Fire as the "August Complex South Zone" and the Elkhorn Fire as the "August Complex North Zone". But it seems that they still acknowledge that the fires have merged, given the statements on the incident pages and the designations of "August Complex" for each fire. LightandDark2000 🌀 (talk) 19:21, 11 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for that. I may have been responsible for that discrepancy on the Wikipedia side as I was frantically trying to follow the updates this morning. At this point it definitely makes more sense to have both in the same article. Shannon [ Talk ] 00:24, 12 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Is that so? I seem to find that it's 726k acres...^[1]69.194.59.207 (talk) 22:55, 22 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

edit: source was outdated

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^ 726,000 acres The August Complex Fire merged with the Elkhorn Fire on Thursday and is almost the size of Yosemite National Park; and double the size of Los Angeles. SCU Lightning Complex Fire Origin: Multiple locations throughout Santa Clara, Alameda, Contra Costa, San Joaquin, Merced and Stanislaus Counties

Table size[edit]

I think the table should be narrowed as it's running way off the screen at least on my computer (both Safari and Firefox). Anyone else having the same issue? Shannon [ Talk ] 21:29, 12 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not having any issues on a 1920 X 1080 screen (standard HD ratio), which I specifically designed dimensions of the table for. Given the prevalence of this ratio and its status as the current, "default" HD standard, I think that the tables should be tailored for the 1920 X 1080. But naturally, we can't accommodate every possible setting, so the table will naturally look like it is running off screens with narrower aspect ratios (especially on smartphones). I believe that if I were to use my older laptop (which has a 1366 X 768 screen), the table would run off the edge of the screen. Conversely, the table will appear to look narrower on larger desktop screens with wider aspect ratios. LightandDark2000 🌀 (talk) 20:23, 13 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Given that Wikipedia recommends images be no wider than 400px since some people might be using something like a smart phone and most people don't set their browser window to full screen even if they have a larger display, I would suggest something considerably narrower than the current table, say 500px at most. Perhaps recast as different type of chart or drop the graphics and just have the percent containment number. --Erp (talk) 23:45, 5 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I used a wikipedia calculating template https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Calculation to get the table size under control (told it to take the previous numbers and divide by 2, if the file gets much bigger increase the denominator). --Erp (talk) 00:43, 25 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Acreage on September 14[edit]

Just guessing here but the 755k acre figure from the latest update is possibly a typo, and meant to be 855k. We'll know for sure tomorrow. Shannon [ Talk ] 01:30, 15 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

September 22 Fire Size[edit]

Is the fire about 850k acres? I looked it up and that's what I found. 69.194.59.207 (talk) 22:55, 22 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

[1] 726,000 acres The August Complex Fire merged with the Elkhorn Fire on Thursday and is almost the size of Yosemite National Park; and double the size of Los Angeles. SCU Lightning Complex Fire Origin: Multiple locations throughout Santa Clara, Alameda, Contra Costa, San Joaquin, Merced and Stanislaus Counties

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